I never hopped over the q1 engine 

understanding the complementairy qbasic progs quotient, while I can hardly get the most basic q supplement.... 

But that first frame is Shambler in a nutshell. 

Spopse it's even less funny without the link.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/ 

http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg 

Which one is me?? 

I'm not very good at this.

The Deluge comic -

"Word up, that's an authentic statement"

Sigh - I'll go back to my corner now. 

So UWF (Tronyn?) is taking a break from reviewing? Anyone else to step into the gap - Kona?? ;) 

You're right about the humour though, it's kind of dropped off. I still read it a fair bit when the boredom sets in - seems like it used to be better.

A few of the series stick in the mind as good, but it gets tiresome eventually, like Bottom or Father Ted. Stuff that was great in their day but time hasn't been kind to.

The comic I b0rkedly linked was funny in the first panel, the rest just a monotonous in-joke. 

yeah, anyone want to review NSOE?
actually on second thought don't bother, there should be a new version out soon.

UWF said that he'll post any reviews I write while he's away when he gets back... but I thought, just IN CASE he doesn't return there's no point writing reviews right now that aren't going to be posted. I think I did 95% of the reviews this year since February, so UWF wasn't all that involved, but he has been running his site for 6 years - maybe it's time for someone else to step up and make an independent review site. 

Kona? Step into a GAP? Right.... 

How 'bout that debate? 

This is cool:

http://www.photobasement.com/pure-epic-awesome/ 

So
#15364 posted by Zwiffle [66.170.5.18] on 2008/10/16 17:00:51
How 'bout that debate?

I'm voting for THAT one --> http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/Image/droot/cthulhu.jpg 

ok, I give up.

I tried playing God of War 2 this afternoon (PS2). I got to the bit near the beginning where i'm still fighting that big statue man but the blade of olympus is stuck in the ground and i have to pull it out before i can use a cutscene to attack the big statue thing.

Problem is, this game is probably the buggiest piece of crap i've ever played. First time I get inside the statue and battle my way to the top to trigger a cutscene of me jumping out of it - then the game crashes midway through the cutscene and i have to reset the console. So I'm reset about 20 minutes back. I do the battle to get the sword again, and then some sort of pseudo-cutscene is triggered where i launch myself at the statue to get inside it. I say pseudo-cutscene because it's still in-game enough for the collision to spaz out in the middle of it (i have no player control at this point though) and send me clipping straight out of the map and into the void instead of doing whatever the fuck it's supposed to be doing. After falling through the void for a while it kills me which was a relief because I didn't want to have to reset the console again.

Ok, third time lucky. I get to the bit again with the blade of olympus in the ground. Now for some reason the rendering of my glowy-chainy weapons isn't fucking working. I can see the player doing all the moves, all the combos and shit but the fucking blades are invisible. It makes the player look like he's trying to throw punches but in a sort of school-playground "wave your arms around randomly and wait for him to walk into your fists" kind of way.

On second thoughts it seems that not only are they not rendering but there's no collision on them either so i can't hit anything. But yeah, I haven't got any further than that because the blades don't appear at all now.

My PS2 is fine btw, off-the-shelf, not modded or anything. 

did you mod it? you shouldn't have done that. buy it off the shelf next time. 

bitterness level :P 

Yeah, it's your PS2. The game played perfectly for me way back when. 

can use a cutscene to attack the big statue thing

Gotta love modern game design >_> 

In seriousness, you do. The giant statue battles in the God of War games are awesome spectacles that I never would have dreamed were possible even 5 years ago. Fucking -awesome- fun! 

no matter how visually impressive they are, quick-time events still suck arse as a gameplay mechanic. 

awesome spectacles

!=

-awesome- fun! 

I'm sorry but if you don't find the God of War games to be awesome fun you need to turn in your gamer badge and get out. Seriously.

And yes, QuickTime events suck but the rest of the game makes up for them IMO. It isn't like it's a crap game AND it has QTE stuck in. 

And the giant statue fights, unless I'm remembering them wrong, weren't the worst offenders of QTE anyway. They were at least memorizable (meaning, the sequence was the same each time). The fight at the end, not to venture into spoiler territory, where the QTE shit was randomized was far, FAR worse. 

For the Wii is good because it's simple - messing around with the dpad for quicktime is beyond shitty.

Kinn, you need a new PS2.

GoW is a great game.